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Exploring the noisy nature of atoms

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated a way to use the random fluctuations that exist naturally in all magnetic systems to perform magnetic resonance studies without disturbing the system's natural state.

Journal: Nature

Sandia helps Navy in shaping future of aircraft carrier operations

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are helping the U.S. Navy create the next generation of aircraft carriers by reviewing and analyzing current Carrier Air Wing flight operations, maintenance, and support functions.

Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A method that uses roughly only one-hundredth the fresh water customarily needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as for residential and industrial uses. As a byproduct, it also may add formerly untapped solar energy to the electrical grid.

'Nanotractor' studies micro-scale friction

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Interest in the development of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) has grown steadily during the past decade. These tiny devices, now used in such applications as auto airbag systems, inkjet printers, and display units, are attractive because they take up little space and require little or no assembly. They also are cheap to produce in batch quantities because they are made with a technology that is already mature -- the microlithography used to make silicon chips.

'Nanotools' - Self-assembling durable nanocrystal arrays

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A wish list for nanotechnologists would likely include a simple, inexpensive means of self-assembling nanocrystals into robust, orderly arrangements, like soup cans on a shelf or bricks in a wall, each separated from the next by an insulating layer of silicon dioxide.

Laboratory advances the art and science of aerogels

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently demonstrated a novel method for chemically modifying and enhancing silica-based aerogels without sacrificing the aerogels unique properties. Aerogels are low-density, transparent materials used in a wide range of applications, including thermal insulation, porous separation media, inertial confinement fusion experiments and cometary dust capture agents.

Meeting: American Chemical Society 228th National Meeting

Detecting the spin of a single electron

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the University of California, Los Angeles have demonstrated the ability to detect the spin of a single electron in a standard silicon transistor. The advance could help facilitate the direct, rather than theoretical, study of the physics of electron spin decoherence, which is a critical step toward manipulating and monitoring the spin of a single electron

Search and rescue group uses Sandia synthetic aperture radar

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

Simple method may improve computer memory, catalysts, ceramic/metal seals, and nanodevices

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A method that creates smooth and strong interfaces between metals and metal oxides without high-temperature brazing has been patented by researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and University of North Texas.

Sandia supercomputer to be world's fastest, yet smaller and less expensive than any competitor

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Red Storm will be faster, yet smaller and less expensive, than previous supercomputers, say researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories, where the machine will be assembled.